NEWSLETTERS + PATREON HIGHLIGHTS
Earth’s New Moon just crossed the Sun in the sign of the Warrior. As many peered through eclipse glasses to catch the show, I got some strange news about my lecture “Spiritual Spectacles”. Herein you’ll find a lineup of April events, reflections on 6 months of resistance since the fall eclipse season, and some valuable messages from our favorite feisty dwarf planet ERIS… April 11, 2024
As many states observe so-called “Columbus Day” myself and my non-binary Italian American collaborators express our dissidence regarding the holiday. We release a new “Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)” project film + publication and Call to Dethrone Columbus Day… October 9, 2023
My newest groundwork Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument) is open to the public. Learn about the concepts, collaborations, rituals and publications supporting it + upcoming adventures for dreamers… July 13, 2023
I write to you from the OTHER SIDE… March 17, 2023
Happy Friday the 13th! … January 13, 2023
REM and Paula Abdul officially displaced by infinitely looping sleigh bells… December 15, 2022
I’ve got big news that won’t snooze… November 23, 2022
Hope you’ve enjoyed the season of the thinned veil… November 3, 2022
Visit my public artworks! Here are a few:
Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument)
My newest groundwork is complete! It’s located on the Rose Kennedy Greenway - just across from the Longwharf Hotel, between the Greenway Carousel and Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion. The piece was unveiled via a Summer Solstice ritual hosted by collaborators Maria Molteni, Ash Capachione, Vin Caponigro, Laura Campagna and Laura Ganci. Click the image to learn more about the work, program and forthcoming publications and video: Triskele & The Monsters Tools: A Solstice Invocation of Medusa Consciousness.
Seven Sisters / Celestial Subduction
Permanently on view on the back wall of the historic Fremont Theatre in Downtown San Luis Obispo, CA
With support from the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and the City of SLO
A Sea Bird, Basketball Court
Visit the cozy home court of the artist who pioneered community basketball court murals! This one is located behind the CVS in Fort Point/ Seaport neighborhood in downtown Boston- look up “Sea Green Playground” on your map app
Several year site-specific ground work located at The Momentary contemporary art museum in Bentonville, AR
NEWS
2024
From Fall of 2023 onward, all of my new highlights are imbedded within my newsletters posted above!
2023
New Craft Artists in Action’s Cosmic Court is featured on the cover of Transgender Studies Quarterly- what an honor!
Psyched to be featured on Episode 8 “Stelle Scopa & Sedna” of A Starnight Dwell podcast
Honored to be interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts: Missing Witches! Special Equinox Episode #182
Kasia of Tarot Map reviews Counting to Infinity * Stelle Scopa, giving it “10 to of 10” <3- Watch it on YouTube
Counting to Infinity * Stelle Scopa Deck of Cards reached it’s funding goal! You can now purchase the deck from my online store
2022
My friend and colleague Tiffany Hopkins is teaching a class through Morbid Anatomy that features some of my artwork. Sign up for Mediumship for creativity here!
The Kickstarter Pre-launch for Counting to Infinity* Stelle Scopa - a playing and divination card deck- is now active. Sign up to be notified and preorder your deck!
STAR BALL has arrived! And it’s available at a “Birthday Bird” discount through 11/6
Honored to announce I’ve been selected to receive the Prilla Smith Bracket award- a generous grant for women artists issues by Wellesley’s Davis Museum
My Shaker Work-Outs are now on view in Mediating, a 2 person show at Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
Counting to Infinity/ Sweeping Stars is featured on Lifted Lab- covering contemporary, spiritual art
Molteni and the NCAA are featured in just the 2nd issue of a brand new Women’s basketball magazine! Check out The Opening Tip by Kevin Coval for WSLAM
I’ll be speaking on a panel during The Muhammad Ali Center Athletes and Social Change Forum on July 15 @2pm
A Sea Ball can now be purchased in the ICA Boston’s design store. Just 3 left!
I completed a new basketball court + recreational space at Doran Elementary in Fall River
Jerry Cullum review: The Shakers, moon walks and fly fishing, this “nature” exhibit covers it all in Arts Atlanta
My solo show at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art has been postponed a year and will open in August 2023 instead
The full 8 episodes of Shaker Work-Out will debut in a group show at White Space/Take It Easy, Atlanta
After 15 years of applying for the Mass Cultural Council artist grant, I have been selected as a recipient in the Painting category!
Unrequited Leisure (Nashville) will be flying my flag on their AIRSPACE flagpole for the month of May
My first solo show in my hometown: Counting to Infinity opens at COOP Galery (Nashville), run is 4/2-4/30
Unseen Hours is featured on Lifted Lab
The Unseen Hours publication + exhibition catalog is ready! Purchase from Fruitlands Museum here
Hilma’s Ghost invited me to participate in an Art & Magic panel discussion! Watch the recorded program here
My work was included in the Eccentric Devotions issue of Femme Salee Magazine. Get your copy here!
My “Make Your Own Visionary Art” Morbid Anatomy class session w/ Tiffany Hopkins is rescheduled for April 16, 3pm est
WBUR lists Unseen hours among “Five Things to Do This Weekend”
2021
You can now purchase gift certificates for Siren Call readings through the online store! Makes a good holiday gift- click here
The SEA BALL - special edition artist basketball based on this summer’s A Sea Bird Fort Point court is available for purchase in the online store
Seven Sisters (Celestial Subduction), 5,000 sq ft site specific mural at the historic Fremont Theater is complete! Thanks to SLOMA + City of San Luis Obispo
Maria will give a (virtually) public artist talk to students of Maine College of Art and Design for the Gary Ambrose Sculpture Lecture Series
Boston Globe includes Unseen Hours in their “What’s happening in the Arts World” September 2021 list
American Craft Council included Unseen Hours in their Craft Happenings recommendations for Winter 2021-22
Unseen Hours: Space Clearing for Spirit Work is open to the public at Fruitlands Museum (Register for a Fireside chat with artists in residence 12/11 2:30pm)
I just completed a 3 week artist residency at Canterbury Shaker Village. Search #ShakerWorkOut on my instagram to see what I was up to!
A Sea Bird, my newest Basketball Court/Ground painting is complete! Visit it in downtown Boston
The Hands: Suspiria’s Morbid Savior Complex, an essay written with Nathan Mondragon was published online and in print- Of Juliet Magazine, Volume 3
Art Witch Podcast interview with Zaneta has been published- Listen here --> Sacred Callings: Past Lives, Multimedia Art and Unapologetic Complexity
My work is included in one of the essays in the Visionary New England catalogue - Purchase from MIT Press
2020
11.15.20 Recorded Artist Talk for Boston College’s CURRENTS series is now available on my vimeo
10.15.20 Venusian Rosaceae, a site specific outdoor commission at The Momentary, in Bentonville, AK is complete!
08.15.20 Recorded Artist Lecture Double Vision: Intersections of Shaker and Spiritualist History in Art has been posted to my vimeo
05.15.20 New Craft Artists in Action have a brand new website on the year of our 10th anniversary
05.01.20 “Paint Buckets” Instagram Live interview recording between Project in the Paint & Maria Molteni is up on vimeo!
02.17.20 Episode 32: Maria Molteni & Basketball Magic / Dear Adam Silver podcast interview with Abigail Smithson published
02.08.20 My Installation Bough House/Bauhaus is complete! After Spiritualism opens to the public at Fitchburg Art Museum
01.01.20 Public Art Review features Maria Molteni + NCAA in issue #59: Redesigning How We Live Together
2019
12.07.19 Grey Magazine features New Craft Artists in Action in issue #48: This Changes Everything
11.15.19 Boston Art Review features Storming the Court in Issue #4: The Public Art Issue
06.01.19 Hard in the Paint receives national public art award from Americans 4 the Arts
03.15.19 I’ve received a scholarship to attend From Bauhaus to Your House at Anderson Ranch
02.25.19 I’ve been selected as a finalist for the Mass Cultural Council $1000 grant for Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
2018
11.05.18 RoKit One steals New Craft Artists in Action Net Works concept for Complexcon, Long Beach installation
11.18.18 My installation Hoop Dreams is completed as part of my residency with Facebook AIR
11.16.18 Sabat Magazine- Elisabeth Krohn interviews myself + Lacey Prpic Hedtke on Spiritualism/Ectoplasm Selfies
10.13.18 SERC installation I Co-designed for DS4SI opens at Project Rowhouses 25th Anniversary Opening/Celebration
10.09.18 New Bedford Art Museum acquires funding for two new basketball court makeovers in Fall River & New Bedford
07.09.18 New interview posted to Boston Voyager Magazine- Meet Maria Molteni - check it out!
06.20.18 I've been accepted to be a fellow/resident at Platteforum in Denver for the winter of 2019!
06.15.18 Storming the Court, Salem MA community basketball is finished! Greg Cook covers the project for Wonderland
05.20.18 I've been appointed by Leonie Bradbury as an Artist in Residence for Union Point
05.01.18 Storming the Court! Peabody Essex Museum collaborates w/NCAA on basketball court for PLAYTIME public program
04.17.18 Studio Allston Hotel is now open for business. Guests may reserve a special suite #514 designed & painted by yours truly
01.20.18 Kosmologym- collaboration between Camp Little Hope, Fukk, & NCAA opens in Copenhagen, Denmark at Den Frei
2017
12.21.17 Hyperallergic includes Boston artists of Now + There's Year of the Woman in their top 20 Best Of for 2017
11.28.17 Crosswalk mural inspired by traditional quilting motif "Drunkard's Path" is completed in South Bay, Boston
11.16.17 United States Artists Fellowships have been selected! It was an honor to be nominated for this prestigious award
10.20.17 A new feminist publication and multiples project - Free Bleed Press - debuts at the Boston Art Book Fair!
10.17.17 The Brother Thomas award fellows have been chosen! I'm grateful to have been nominated among amazing artists
10.06.17 Hard in the Paint: an Interview with Maria Molteni by Megan Gregory is published in Big Red & Shiny
09.11.17 UMOCA's Art Truck Installation Festooning: Enter the Beehive is finished & ready to tour schools in Salt Lake City!
08.20.17 Ectoplasm Selfies zine is hot off the press to debut in the Medium exhibit at the Zuckerman Museum of Art!
08.05.17 Creators.Vice features the Hard in the Paint basketball court makeover in Dorchester
07.10.17 Hard in the Paint, Harambee Park collaborative basketball court makeover is finished! Review in WBUR Artery here
07.07.17 Center for Craft Creativity & Design's new series Craft City is kicked off by New Craft Artists in Action in Asheville
06-07.17 My work has been featured in the June/July Fun & Games issue of American Craft Magazine, in print and online
01.01.17 Clubhouse Court (aka Ballteni Court) was selected as one of the best public art projects in Boston for 2016
2016
10.15.16 Vermont Studio Center has selected me to receive a full Fellowship for one month to their artist residency program
10.03.16 I've been selected as one of 10 Artists in Residence for the city of Boston, 2016-2017! >>> Boston AIR
09.30.16 Common Field has kindly awarded me a scholarship to attend this year's Common Field Convening in Miami
08.15.16 Great Review of NCAA's work in ARTSLANT, Berlin! Playing for Justice: Contesting/Contexting Sport by Andrea Alessi
04.08.16 I've been accepted to attend Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC) as a fellow of the Southern Constellations residency
03.22.16 Boston Globe reviews L'oeuf et L'oeil (The Egg and the Eye) at How's Howard? running my image in print
03.25.16 The Clubhouse has a brand new court I designed for Bostonians to ball on- an NCAA collective collabo at 471 Somerville Ave
01.26.16 I've been nominated to apply for Elsewhere's Southern Constellations fellowship for artists born/based in the South
01.14.16 The NCAA have been invited by Fractured Atlas to participate in a Congressional Maker's Caucus event on Capitol Hill!
11.18.15 I'll be lecturing to the Massart Sculpture Department about Public and Community Art along with Janet Echelman
08.10.15 Woander is reviewed in Big Red and Shiny!
RECENT/PAST (view CV for full list post 2021)
2021
Unseen Hours: Space Clearing for Spirit Work
Collaborative Solo show with Allison Halter, curated by Shana Dumont Garr
Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
Golden Dome Presents: The Work of the Sun
Flower Head, Los Angeles, CA
2020
After Spiritualism: Loss & Transcendence in Contemporary Art
Fitchburg Art Museum, MA
To The Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
Venusian Rosaceae (Five Seeded Star) - Site specific painted groundwork
The Momentary, Bentonville, AK
Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
2019
Cosmic Court basketball court mural
Talbot Middle School, Fall River, MA
With the New Bedford Art Museum
Digital Soup- Evening of rooftop performances curated by Lani Asuncion
Studio 550, Cambridge MA
Courting the Sky
Basketball Court makeover & celebratory block party
Curated by the New Bedford Art Museum
Clasky Common, New Bedford, MA
From Bauhaus to Your House
Woodworking workshop scholarship
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
Eschaton (we were just kids playing kings)
Project 1612, Peoria, IL
Pried
Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance group exhibition
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Platteforum Artist Residency + Solo Exhibition
AB EXorcism! Applied Action Painting & Inverted Arenas
Denver, CO
Social Emergency Response Center
Co-designed for DS4SI for Round 48: Beyond Social Practice
Project Rowhouses (25th Anniversary Round), Houston, TX
2018
Haystack Art Schools Collaborative Conference, visiting artist presenter
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
Solo Show
BB&N Upper School Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Sun Worship & Solar Machines - group show
Curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow (The Sphinx Northeast)
FPAC at Envoy Hotel, Boston Seaport District
Opening Reception 9/6, 6-8pm
Making Change: The Art of Craft and Activism
Museum of Design Atlanta, Georgia
Opening Reception: June 2
Altarations: A Selection of Shrines at the Dorchester Art Project- group show
Opening Reception: July 21, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: August 26, 1-4pm
Dorchester Art Projects, Boston, MA
John Michael Kohler Art Center for the Midsummer Festival in the Arts
Sheboygan, WI
Art Truck Teaching Artist Residency
Stitched: Syntax/ Action/ Reaction
New Art Center, Newton MA
Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver University, Colorado
Opening March 8, 5-8pm
Kosmologym - collaboration between Camp Little Hope + Fukk + New Craft Artists in Action
Den Frei Center for Contemporary Art
Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Odds and Ends // Yale Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Boston Art Book Fair- Maria Molteni/ Free Bleed Publications booth
Special Programs: Screening of A Visitors Guide to Reorientation on Spectacle Island
Goodman Banks Visiting Artist Residency, Kingswood Oxford School, West Hartford, Connecticut
City of Boston Artist in Residence with BCYF Perkins Center
Collaboration/Residency with Queer Sport Split, Split, Croatia
Medium, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia
Year of the Woman: Now + There Curated Group show, Beehive, Boston
Stand Up, Gallery Kayafas
NCAA Craft City Workshop 5-8pm July 7
The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, North Carolina
Selvedge - Group Show centered on intersection of textile & painting, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland ME
Makers Marks: Art, Craft and the Fiber of Change
Panel discussion: Artists Discuss Their Practices, Moderated by Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, President of the North Bennet Street School
BCA BALL - Gala and Fundraiser for Boston Center for the Arts
NCAA Presents... Sidelines: Soft Power in the Margins, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Month of February- Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2016
Montserrat College of Art and Design, Beverly, MA
Radius
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Northampton Print and Book Fair!
A.P.E Gallery, Northampton, MA
Changing Allston
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gallery Talk for Second Hands MFA Community Artist Project
Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Contesting/Contexting Sport: To Reclaim the Field with Art and Activism
NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Souther Constellations public artist talks
Elsewhere Living Museum and Residency, Greensboro, NC
Southern Constellations fellowship/residency
Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
CounterCraft: The Rise of the Indie Craft Movement - Curated by Faythe Levine
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Re: Development
Group show curated by Maggie Cavallo for the Fort Point Artists Community (FPAC)
Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Unfolded: The Practice and Process of Contemporary Artists
Lecture Series for DS4SI @ Design Studio for Social Intervention, 1496 Washington St, Roxbury, MA
Ectoplasm Selfie-Building Workshop in collaboration with Lacey Prpić Hedtke
Collaboration with hosted by the Boston LGBTIAQ Artists Alliance
Part of Programming for the Queer Threads exhibition at the BCA/Mills Gallery
Solo Show!
L'oeuf et L'oeil (The Egg and The Eye)
How's Howard? (exhibitions), 450 Harrison Ave Suite 309C, South End, Boston
Whir curated by Robert Moeller
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Hothouse Clubhouse: Works to Ease the Season, Curated by Ethan Kiermiar
Student Union Art Gallery, UMASS Amherst
Making in the Arts 4-6pm hosted by the Congressional Maker Caucus
Fractured Atlas invites New Craft Artists in Action to Capitol Hill
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
2015
Just What I Always Wanted / Holiday Pop Up
Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, CT
New Craft Artists in Action participate in BUST Craftacular Boston
Polychromatic Antiphony - Performance with Jessie Doucha
First Fridays (Bau)House Party @ ICA Boston
They were sunbeams. They were perilous cliffs. They were prophets. They were cannibals.
In collaboration with Hermione Spriggs, part of Time, Body, Space, Objects IV performance series
Curated by Alice Vogler and Vela Phelan for the Island Arts Initiative
August 22nd from first to last ferry, Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, MA
NCAA in collaboration with ICA Boston's Teen Arts Council
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Woander
Grin, Providence, RI
NCAA Presents: Field Days - Curated by Pam Campanaro
Montserrat Galleries, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Oops, You Missed it - Curated by Robert Moeller
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Flag Day Flag Show
Club Roar, Nashville, TN
Window Installation @ SPACE Gallery // Portland Main
Boston University Alumni Exhibit @ 808 Gallery // Boston, MA
FPAC Members show @ Atlantic Wharf Gallery // Boston, MA
Group show @ 13 Forest Gallery // Boston, MA